Referencing

What is Referencing?When you research a topic for an assignment you may use ideas or information from a number of sources, including books, articles from journals or newspapers and websites to support your own work.Referencing is a way of showing what sources you have used, giving credit to the original authors.Why Do We Reference?

To avoid plagiarism by giving credit to the original source of an idea, piece of information or resource.

To support your work with the authoritative work of another author.

To demonstrate your knowledge and familiarity with a topic that you have researched.

To help readers of your work to find the original source of information or ideas that you have used.

What Do We Reference? Any quoted text - use quotation marks whn directly using someone else's words.Any idea or information paraphrased or summarised from a source which is not common knowledge.

How Do We Reference?As you do your research, keep a list of all the sources that you use. You need to record specific information for each source - this is called the citation.Here are some examples:

Book = Author, Title of Book, Place of Publication, Date of Publication

﻿Cite This For MeCitethisforme is a handy online tool that takes the pain out of referencing

You can easily cite: - a webpage by simply copying an pasting the URL into the Website tab- a book by searching using title and author's last nameIt will even collect and collate a downloadable Bibliography for you.

Note: APA is now the preferred referencing style for most Australian universities.